Lectures on the History of Philosophy

G. W. F. Hegel
Hegelianism
Forerunners
Aristotle Böhme Rousseau Kant Goethe Fichte Hölderlin Schelling
Successors
Feuerbach Marx Lukács Kojève Adorno Habermas
Principal works
The Phenomenology of Spirit Science of Logic Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences Lectures on Aesthetics Elements of the Philosophy of Right Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion Lectures on the Philosophy of History Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Schools
Absolute idealism Hegelianism (dialectics) British idealism German idealism
Related topics
Right Hegelians Young Hegelians

Lectures on the History of Philosophy (LHP; German: Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie, VGPh, delivered 1819, 1820, 1825–6, 1827–8, 1829–30, and 1831^[1]) is a compilation of notes from university lectures on the history of philosophy given by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In it, he outlined his ideas on the major philosophers. He saw consciousness as progressing from an undifferentiated pantheism of the East to a more individualistic understanding culminating in the freedom of the Germanic era.

In his lectures Hegel cites extensively the voluminous histories of philosophy written in Germany after 1740; among them: Johann Jakob Brucker's Historia critica philosophiae, 6 vols. (1742–67; "Critical History of Philosophy"); Johann Buhle's Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie, 8 vols. (1796–1804; "Textbook on the History of Philosophy"); Dietrich Tiedemann's Geist der spekulativen Philosophie von Thales bis Berkeley, 6 vols. (1791–97; "The Spirit of Speculative Philosophy from Thales to Berkeley"); and Gottlieb Tennemann's Geschichte der Philosophie, 11 vols. (1789–1819; "History of Philosophy").

See also

• A History of Philosophy by Frederick Copleston
• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

References

External links

• Lectures on the History of Philosophy at archive.org
• Lectures on the History of Philosophy at marxists.org
• Blackwell Reference